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Family offices moved **$180B** into private credit and direct deals since Q3 2025, shortening intermediation and raising median check sizes to **$14M**.
$180 billion
out of listed equity and bond portfolios into private…
127 single-family offices
with average AUM of
$2.1 billion
Equity allocations fell from
33.6%
across the cohort
Yanne Capital's H2 2026 Family Office Allocation Watch documents a rotation that started quietly in September 2025 and has now moved an estimated $180 billion out of listed equity and bond portfolios into private credit, direct deal flow, and structured real estate. The firm tracks 127 single-family offices with average AUM of $2.1 billion. Equity allocations fell from 41% to 33.6% across the cohort. Private credit rose from 8% to 14%, and direct co-investments—mostly sponsor-backed growth equity and control buyouts—moved from 6% to 11%.
The pattern is not panic. It is methodical capital repricing. Family offices are shortening their intermediation chains. They are cutting out fund-of-funds structures, reducing management fee drag, and negotiating co-invest rights directly with sponsors. Yanne's data shows the median check size for direct deals increased from $8 million to $14 million over the same period. The offices are writing fewer checks, but they are larger and closer to the asset. Real estate exposure also shifted: core multifamily allocations declined 320 bps, while opportunistic development and value-add industrial strategies gained 410 bps. The move is into complexity, not safety.
The timing coincides with two structural forces. First, private credit spreads widened in late 2025 as banks pulled back from middle-market lending. Family offices stepped in, underwriting senior secured loans at SOFR + 650 to SOFR + 825 with original issue discounts and equity kickers. Second, the Trump administration's tariff adjustments and permitting reforms created a narrow window for onshore industrial development. Family offices with real estate arms pivoted capital into logistics hubs, cold storage, and manufacturing retrofit projects in Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas. Yanne's note flags 22 offices that deployed over $40 million each into these themes between November 2025 and April 2026.
The shift also reflects dissatisfaction with traditional 60/40 portfolio construction. Alex Chiniborch's separate commentary on gold allocations underscores the same instinct: family offices are treating bonds as expensive optionality, not income. They are replacing fixed-income duration with private credit's floating-rate exposure and gold's convexity. The RIA channel is watching closely. Registered investment advisors are now sourcing private real estate feeder funds and interval funds to offer similar exposure without the $10 million minimum checks family offices deploy directly.
Operators and allocators should watch three follow-on events. First, Yanne Capital's next quarterly update in October 2026 will confirm whether the rotation continues or stabilizes. Second, private credit funds raising capital in Q3 and Q4 2026 will face competition from family office balance sheets willing to write $15 million to $25 million checks directly to sponsors. Third, onshore industrial development projects will begin closing financing by September 2026, and the equity return hurdles—targeting 18% to 24% IRR—will set expectations for the next wave of capital deployment.
The rotation is not a forecast. It is a completed move, now visible in allocation data across 127 offices managing $267 billion in aggregate. The next question is not whether family offices will continue rotating, but whether institutional allocators will follow them into the same deal flow, and at what price.
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Track private credit spreads in middle-market senior secured. Family offices underwriting SOFR + 650 with equity kickers; pricing window may narrow by Q4.
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Named accounts increase private credit allocation 200 bps and initiate onshore industrial real estate exposure in Tennessee, Georgia, Texas markets by September.
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